Shell ovate, subfusiform, solid, glossy; spire subturrited, the apex rather obtuse, smooth, whitish. Whorls 8,5, a little convex, the early ones very minutely granulate, pale tawny, the last two burnt-chestnut, subregularly plicatulate-striate, decussated with narrow spiral impressions; the last whorl obscurely banded, equal to the spire or a little shorter. Columella white-blue, somewhat twisted, nearly straight, tapering-truncate. Aperture acuminate-oval, blue within; peristome unexpanded, thin, brown-bordered, the margins joined by a thin, bright blue callous. Length 101, diam. 43 mm.

West Africa: Rocky heights of the Serra de Pedras de Guinga, Angola (Dr. Welwitsch). Landana, Congo (Petit) ; near Banza-Manteka, in a grassy plain on the caravan route from Matade to Loukoungou (E. Dupont).